Research+Profiles

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P. Ajith
Is a senior postdoc at Caltech (LIGO and Theoretical Astrophysics group) and works on gravitational-wave astronomy and source modeling of coalescing compact binaries.

Theocharis Apostolatos
is an assistant professor at the University of Athens, Greece. He works on analytical metrics for the exterior of neutron stars, NS-multipole moments, and GW from non-GR EMRIs.

**Enrico Barausse**
CITA national fellow at the University of Guelph (Canada), works on phenomenological waveform models (EOB), Post Newtonian theory, modified gravity theories

Edo Berger
Is an associate professor at [|Harvard University] and works on [|gamma-ray bursts and time-domain astrophysics].

Duncan Brown
is an associate professor at [|Syracuse University] and works on [|gravitational-wave astronomy of compact binary coalescence.]

Alessandra Buonanno
is a physics professor at the University of Maryland and works on the analytical modeling of the dynamics and gravitational-wave emission of compact binary systems.

Laura Cadonati
is an associate professor at the [|University of Massachusetts Amherst] and works on [|gravitational wave transients] in LIGO and Virgo

Stephen Fairhurst
is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at [|Cardiff University] and works on gravitational wave searches for compact binary coalescence.

Francois Foucart
is a post-doctoral fellow at [|CITA] (Toronto) working on general relativistic [|simulations of compact objects mergers] within the [|SXS collaboration].

Chris Fragile
is an associate professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. He works primarily on MHD simulations of black hole accretion in a fixed (Kerr) metric.

Chris Fryer
is an Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He works on the theoretical understanding of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts.

Bruno Giacomazzo
is a research associate at JILA (University of Colorado Boulder), and works on numerical simulations of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes).

Mark Hannam
is an STFC Advanced Fellow at Cardiff University, and works on numerical simulations of black-hole mergers, and gravitational-wave modelling.

Tanja Hinderer
is a postdoc at UMD working on modelling compact binary inspirals

Atish Kamble
is a postdoc at [|UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics] working on aspects of GRB afterglows, supernovae and radio transients.

David Kaplan
is an assistant professor at the [|UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics] and [|works] on development of new radio arrays as well as observations of compact objects.

Larry Kidder
is a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University working on general relativistic simulations of compact binary mergers within the [|SXS collaboration].

Luis Lehner
is a professor at the University of Guelph and associate faculty of the Perimeter Institute, and works on gravitational wave astronomy and electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary systems.

Alexandre Le Tiec
is a postdoc at University of Maryland working on gravitational-wave source modeling.

Raffaella Margutti
is a post-doc at Harvard University and works on the high-energy (UV, X-ray,Gamma-ray) properties of Supernovae and Gamma-ray Bursts

Brian Metzger
is a postdoc at Princeton University, and works on a variety of topics in high energy astrophysics, including the EM counterparts of compact binary coalescence.

David Neilsen
is a professor at Brigham Young University and works on compact object binaries and EM counterparts using numerical relativity.

Richard O'Shaughnessy
is a research associate at the UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics and [|works on gravitational-wave astrophysics of compact binary coalescence].

Carlos Palenzuela
is a postdoc in the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Toronto, and works on the numerical modeling of sources of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts.

Larne Pekowsky
is a postdoc at the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Tech, working on using results from Numerical Relativity to improve the efficiency of ground-based gravitational-wave searches. This includes the [|NINJA project].

Jocelyn Read
is an assistant professor at Cal State University Fullerton, and works on neutron-star astrophysics involving dense matter, particularly neutron-star binaries and gravitational waves.

Re'em Sari
is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and works on EM counterparts of GRBs, shock breakouts from SNe and TDE.

B.S. Sathyaprakash
is a professor at Cardiff University, UK, and works on gravitational waves (extracting science from gravitational-wave observations, source modelling, algorithm development, and data analysis), cosmology and large-scale structure.

Mark Scheel
is a Senior Research Associate at Caltech, and works on numerical relativity within the [|SXS collaboration]

Josiah Schwab
is a graduate student at Berkeley (with E. Quataert) and is interested in the evolution of disks formed by compact binary mergers.

Gang Shen
is a research associate in National Institute for Nuclear Theory at University of Washington. He works primarily on equation of state for dense matter and associated neutrino interactions for core-collpase supernova and neutron stars.

Deirdre Shoemaker
is an associate professor at the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Tech working on compact binaries and their gravitational wave signatures.

Andrea Taracchini
is a graduate student at University of Maryland (with A. Buonanno), working on analytical modelling of black hole binaries.

Manuel Tiglio
is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, working on computational relativity, reduced order modeling, and gravitational waves.

Eleonora Troja
is a postdoc at NASA/GSFC, working with the Swift and Fermi teams on GRBs and afterglows observations.

Nicolas Yunes
is an Asst. Professor at Montana State University, and works on analytical relativity, focusing on black hole and neutron star inspirals both within and outside of General Relativity.

Ashley Zauderer
is a postdoc at Harvard University and works on radio followup of gamma ray bursts, including short GRBs.